Men who believe that, through some exceptional grace or good fortune, they have found God, feel little need of culture.
AGNES REPPLIERit is not every tourist who bubbles over with mirth, and that unquenchable spirit of humor which turns a trial into a blessing.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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The necessity of knowing a little about a great many things is the most grievous burden of our day. It deprives us of leisure on the one hand, and of scholarship on the other.
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fair play is less characteristic of groups than of individuals.
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We cannot learn to love other tourists,-the laws of nature forbid it,-but, meditating soberly on the impossibility of their loving us, we may reach some common platform of tolerance, some common exchange of recognition and amenity.
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We may fail of our happiness, strive we ever so bravely; but we are less likely to fail if we measure with judgement our chances and our capabilities.
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History is not written in the interests of morality.
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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.
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It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more.
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It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.
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It is impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.
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We have but the memories of past good cheer, we have but the echoes of departed laughter. In vain we look and listen for the mirth that has died away. In vain we seek to question the gray ghosts of old-time revelers.
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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.
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It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment.
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Life is so full of miseries, minor and major; they press so close upon us at every step of the way, that it is hardly worthwhile to call one another’s attention to their presence.
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We owe to one another all the wit and good humour we can command; and nothing so clears our mental vistas as sympathetic and intelligent conversation.
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It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.
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